WE-UQ Overview

The Wind Engineering with Uncertainty Quantification (WE-UQ) application enables simulation workflows to evaluate a structure's response to wind loading. It offers methods to generate wind force histories, create numerical models, and run simulations. Both deterministic and probabilistic simulations are supported, with uncertainties in wind events, models, and solvers automatically propagated to provide a probabilistic response description. Results can be used for sensitivity analysis or to train surrogate models.

This application was developed by the NHERI SimCenter.

Learn How to Use WE-UQ

WE-UQ Website  Application Summary  User Guide

How to Cite WE-UQ & DesignSafe

Please include both of these citations if you use WE-UQ on DesignSafe.

WE-UQ:

Frank McKenna, Abiy Melaku, Fei Ding, Peter Mackenzie-Helnwein, Michael Gardner, Sang-ri Yi, Aakash Bangalore Satish, & Wael Elhaddad. (2025). NHERI-SimCenter/WE-UQ: Version 4.2.0 (v4.2.0). https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14895011

Deierlein, G.G., McKenna, F., et al. (2020). A Cloud-Enabled Application Framework for Simulating Regional-Scale Impacts of Natural Hazards on the Built Environment. Frontiers in Built Environment. 6, 196. doi: 10.3389/fbuil.2020.558706.

DesignSafe:

Rathje, E., Dawson, C. Padgett, J.E., Pinelli, J.-P., Stanzione, D., Adair, A., Arduino, P., Brandenberg, S.J., Cockerill, T., Dey, C., Esteva, M., Haan, Jr., F.L., Hanlon, M., Kareem, A., Lowes, L., Mock, S., and Mosqueda, G. 2017. “DesignSafe: A New Cyberinfrastructure for Natural Hazards Engineering,” ASCE Natural Hazards Review, doi:10.1061/(ASCE)NH.1527-6996.0000246.

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